Wilson's Patent Swingle-Tree Irons.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 3, 2 January 1907, Page iii (Supplement)

Wilson's Patent Swingle-Tree Irons.

\ll farmers have experienced trouble through the irons on their swingle- trees becoming loose and falling off. This, of course, generally means a loss of time as the nearest place where the trees can be repaired may be a mile or so from where a farmer is working. Wilson's patent swingle-tree irons are said to be an improvement on the old order of things, inasmuch as they are very simple and easily adjustable, and can, by moving the centre iron along the tree, be made into an equalising bar at a short notice In event of a brake on the swingle-tree, Wilson's irons can in a few minutes be taken off and fixed to any suitable place roughly trimmed to shape with an axe. The irons are made of malleable cast iron, and are strong and light ; and the maximum thickness of the metal is regulated so as to fall where the most strength is required. As Wilson's irons are extremely portable it is possible to carry an extra iron or so without any trouble. The irons are on view at Messrs. Baldwin & Rayward's stand in the Machinery Hall.

Our representative recently called upon Mr. Geo. Croft, organ builder, Auckland, who built the organ for the last Wellington Exhibition, and also for the Auckland Exhibition of 1899, the latter being now in regular use at the Choral Hall. At the factory, which is well equipped Avith machinery, a new large two-manual organ is building for St. Benedicts' Roman Catholic church, Auckland. The quality of the material and the appearance of Mr Croft's workmanship bear strict comparison with the best English work. Our representative, who called, a few months back, upon some of the best English firms, gives this opinion with very great pleasure, and he further states that many English builders do not hesitate to get rid of a goodly number of their second-class instruments to colonial customers, even to the extent of supplying German material as English. The idea that organs with pneumatic action must of necessity be imported is quite fallacious, as Mr. Croft rarely builds an organ upon the old tracker system. Mr. Croft believes in employing the most proficient assistance upon which he can depend, and this, coupled with sound judgment and strict supervision on his part, will certainly bring to him and his assistants that support which the intelligent colonial free from the bias which often characterises new arrivals from the old world, so willingly gives and maintains.